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Monday, April 3, 2017

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World is by Michal Pollan. This
fantastic little nonfiction book is about four different plants and how they
relate to four of man’s greatest desires: sweetness – the apple; beauty – the tulip;
intoxication – marijuana; and control – the potato. Pollan discusses the
history of each of these plants and how they have affected human history. He wonders
in the book if plants “use” humans to spread their own species and evolve in a
way that will assure their own existence. This book is easy to read and thoroughly enjoyable. Pollan makes you stop and think about nature in a completely new and different way.Ratings: 10th grade - 9 out of 10 - AC (Some mature thematic content).